Dave Jackson Quartet: Cosmontology

A bebop saxophonist from down under leads a Sydney-New York collaboration the latter being the UK-raised bassist Orlando Le Fleming...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Dave Douglas: DD 50 Special Edition 50th Birthday Recordings

Aoife O'Donovan | Clarence Penn | Dave Douglas | Greg Tardy | Jon Irabagon | Joshua Roseman | Linda Oh | Matt Mitchell | Rudy Royston | Uri Caine

Here's an invite to a fab party. To celebrate 50 years on the planet, Douglas has handsomely boxed three recent...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2014

Chris Hodgkins & Dave Price: Back In Your Own Backyard

Ashley John Long | Chris Hodgkins | Dave Price | Erika Lyons

Here's Hodgkins newly released from his long-term role as director of Jazz Services and back to doing what he always...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2015

Sarah Vaughan/Quincy Jones: Misty

Originally out as Vaughan and Violins, these orchestral charts are by Q during his Paris sojourn, studying with Nadia Boulanger,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Reid Anderson/Dave King/Craig Taborn: Golden Valley Is Now

Craig Taborn | Dave King | Reid Anderson

The title refers to a city on the outskirts of Minneapolis, where all three of the musicians grew up and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Dave Douglas: Uplift: Twelve Pieces for Positive Action

Bill Laswell | Dave Douglas | Ian Chang | Joe Lovano | Julian Lage | Mary Halvorson

Last year Douglas and pals released an album a month, each with a different theme: voting rights, racial equality, women’s...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2019

Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Trio: The Complete 1972 Berlin Jazz Concert

Alan Dawson | Dave Brubeck | Gerry Mulligan | Jack Six | Paul Desmond

The Mulligan, Desmond, Brubeck package toured Europe in October/November 1972, resulting in the album Together Again for the First Time...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2015

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of the USA

Benny Goodman | Bobby Hackett | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Joe Morelloe | Norman Bates | Paul Desmond

Jazz Impressions of the USA was Brubeck’s second studio session for Columbia, recorded November 1956 (albeit ‘Home at Last’, the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Quincy Jones/Harry Arnold: Big Band = Jazz!

This US/Swedish band from 1958 is the high point of Quincy's work as a jazz bandleader and arranger and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Sachal Studios Orchestra: Jazz and All That In Memory of Dave Brubeck

Ballu Khan | Derek Watkins | John Parracelli | Nafees Ahmed Khan | Najaf Ali | Rafiq Ahmed

The Sachal Studios Orchestra comprises musicians from Pakistan playing traditional instruments plus three cellos and three desks of violins. It...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014